YEAR · 2025 · HACKER NEWS

Hacker News2025 Year in Review

Monthly highlights from Hacker News across 2025. 36 sampled stories, each linked to the daily digest it came from.

January 2025(3 sampled)

  1. UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000% (fortune.com)
  2. Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its schools (2023) (apnews.com)
  3. GOG Joins European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects (www.gamingonlinux.com)

February 2025(3 sampled)

  1. The European VAT Is Not a Discriminatory Tax Against US Exports (taxfoundation.org)
  2. My Life in Weeks (weeks.ginatrapani.org)
  3. New SF public health chief was part of McKinsey opioid-marketing operation (sfstandard.com)

March 2025(3 sampled)

  1. Sign in as anyone: Bypassing SAML SSO authentication with parser differentials (github.blog)
  2. What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017) (medium.com)
  3. How many artists' careers did the Beatles kill? (www.cantgetmuchhigher.com)

April 2025(3 sampled)

  1. Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations (old.reddit.com)
  2. Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator (filiph.github.io)
  3. It's easier than ever to de-censor videos (www.jeffgeerling.com)

May 2025(3 sampled)

  1. The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use (sketch.dev)
  2. Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment (www.nytimes.com)
  3. Harvard Law paid $27 for a copy of Magna Carta. It's an original (www.nytimes.com)

June 2025(3 sampled)

  1. Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014) (tim.dierks.org)
  2. GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009) (linuxgazette.net)
  3. Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi (www.downtowndougbrown.com)

July 2025(3 sampled)

  1. Helix Editor 25.07 (helix-editor.com)
  2. Encrypting files with passkeys and age (words.filippo.io)
  3. KDE's official Roku/Android TV alternative is back from the dead (www.neowin.net)

August 2025(3 sampled)

  1. Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations (www.anthropic.com)
  2. Imagen 4 is now generally available (developers.googleblog.com)
  3. Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account (edka.io)

September 2025(3 sampled)

  1. GPT-5-Codex (openai.com)
  2. React is winning by default and slowing innovation (www.lorenstew.art)
  3. Hosting a website on a disposable vape (bogdanthegeek.github.io)

October 2025(3 sampled)

  1. Getting syntax highlighting wrong (tonsky.me)
  2. Claude Haiku 4.5 (www.anthropic.com)
  3. I almost got hacked by a 'job interview' (blog.daviddodda.com)

November 2025(3 sampled)

  1. FBI Director Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Three Senior Staff (www.propublica.org)
  2. Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: the story of learned avoidance (elifesciences.org)
  3. Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript engine written in Rust (github.com)

December 2025(3 sampled)

  1. Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates (community.letsencrypt.org)
  2. “Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number (ericdaigle.ca)
  3. Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop (blog.vaxry.net)